when were you out? I was at Shimada Park from 3 to 4...rigged, put my wetsuit on, took my wetsuit off, looked again with a binocular, put my wetsuit on, looked again, decided I couldn't get out, took my wetsuit off...

Done by 3:15. Had to save a little for twilight golf - a "sport" I thought I would never indulge in till I got older. I guess I'm there. All that walking is harder on my legs than a 2 hour windsurf session - might have to reconsider.

With the iW station at Bodega still broken I took a chance by looking at other readings and was rewarded: perfectly powered to o/p on 5.7. One other sailor out on I believe a 6.3, several kiters.

Eel grass is a plague, but on one reach I had enough wind close-in to get on a plane before I got to the weed patch and was able to zoom right through it.. Not so lucky the rest of the time.

Board went unstable at one point, found gelatinous green mass stuck between the two fins.

Bat rays were very active near the launch earlier while it was shallow.

This past Wednesday I had gone out to see if a replacement batten agreed with the 5.3. The batten did fine, but the wind fell rapidly once I got onto the water. That's about the time that the iW station quit. One other sailor there, had packed up by the time I arrived.

Another TI day, my fifth ever (am I a veteran yet?), very powered up with my 5.0.

I think I need to start to rig smaller and ignore the "need to rig bigger" suggestions about sailing TI. The Hot Sails Maui Firelight is quite amazing when over powered, you can zig-zag happily and de-power it leisurely on the lip (oh well ... what passes as a lip on the swell) ... but really ... I could have been all day on my 4.3
Quite a lot of sailors out ... including a visit from 4 formula guys probably coming from Berkeley. Very cool, it still really impresses me how a Formula/Big slalom board (with the right pilot!) can just cruise the Bay like a sailboat.

thanks to deven, scott, mattias, pedro, and the other ti sailors who helped me replace a snapped universal today about 1/4 way to angel. was awesome! just like when you pull in the pit off the race track. bunch of people just kind of swarmed in and got it all fixed up in no time. great feeling to be sailing with a group of people like this!!

rubber (hourglass style) with europin. part of the actual metal pin snapped between the pin and the rubber joint so the backup safety webbing was useless (rubber joint did not break). since the break happened behind rubber/plastic housing there doesn't seem to be an easy way to inspect for this prior to sailing, though i do inspect the rubber joint often. i'm 165 lbs, and have one season of hard use on it. plan to keep sailing the same model though (still much better success rate than tendons for me, and can't beat the convenience of euro-pin).

I believe what he is showing us is the single bolt that goes through the hourglass. To my knowledge there is no double bolt that goes through the hourglass. This is why the webbing stayed with the base and was useless.

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